Thursday, February 9, 2012

Happy 2nd Birthday, Josie

We have now recovered (well, mostly) from our birthday bash this weekend. We were very blessed to celebrate Josie's second birthday with friends, family, and Blue!! Josie has been obsessed with Blue's Clues for months now, so the obvious choice for her b-day theme was the Blue dog herself. We think she enjoyed it even though she took a quick nap on Bamps before the cake was cut and was ready to leave as soon as the last present was opened.

Ready to party!!

Ben was the first guest to arrive andwas more than happy to sport a party hat!

Even though Aunt Stephanie had a horrid migraine,she was brave enough to come to a party with abunch of 2-6 year olds– much to Josie's excitement.

Many budding composers were hard at work on the piano.

Party games!!! Yay!

Such a Daddy's girl.

After a quick snooze, it was cake time.(Abby helped with the candle part!)

Yummo! Blue's Clues Cake!!

After presents, Josie was ready to head home.Time to get good hugs from Atticus. . .

And Aunt TeeTee!

Though not quite ready for Pinterest, I had fun designingand making unique hats for the party. . .

And name "collars" for the treat bags.

The cake took forever. . . to decide which one toorder from eBay. :D

Abby helped make the poster. . .she painted and picked the colors too.

The party girl the morning of her actual b-day!

After dropping Abby off at school, Josie and Iscooted over to Build-A-Bear (or in our case, a Monkey).

She loves her monkey named Unkie.

A celebratory 3 hour birthday nap wasdefinitely called for. ;)

That evening, we let the girls decorate their owncupcake!

They were both really good at it!

Yummo!!

Yay! Another Blue!

And an oven set from Kahki and Randall!!

We could not have asked for more smiles than Josie has brought to us in the last two years. She has been full of surprises, but that is great with us. (Keeps us on our toes.) So, we hope you had a wonderful birthday, Sweet Josie Girl!

Baby Sister Stats

Josie is growing too fast (in my humble, yet correct opinion). She has 4 teeth, says 3 words ( "momma," "dada," and "ball"). She also says "Bob" a lot. We have a lot of fun figuring out who or what "bob" is. The greatest thing is that not only did she crawl at almost 8 months, but she started walking this past weekend.

The medicine she is on is still working great, and we hope that she won't have to have surgery on her birthmark. We are still going for monthly checks at the cardiologist and bi-monthly checks at the dermatologist. The problem with her heart that was detected by accident is also being monitored. She is doing well, and they think that it will only be a problem that needs to be monitored at most. The hope is that she will out-grow it.

She's spunky and fun. She loves to try to keep up Abby, which makes for some interesting days.

Height: 28" (50th percentile)Weight: 16 lbs. 10 oz (10th percentile)

Big Sister Stats

She LOVES school. (hmmm... wonder where she gets that?!?) Her life has turned into a musical. She loves music and singing. However, her favorite thing to do is arts and crafts. She even wears marker lids on the tips of her fingers. (Really! I have to make her take them off for school!) She's a great big sister who loves to help Josie learn new things, though she does make me gate-off her tent. I figure every girl needs her own space.

Height- 39"Weight- 32 lbs

Voc-ABBY-lary

She's having fun with new words. For example, when she twirls, she will stop and say, "mommy, I have to sit down. I'm getting so busy." :) She still loves to read. her current faves are Dr. Seuss books and a fu nbook called "Bird on My Head."